American Express reviews

4.1

81% would recommend to a friend

(18,632 total reviews)
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Stephen J Squeri

89% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

American Express has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 18,632 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The American Express employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Finance industry (3.7 stars).

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19K reviews
2.0
Feb 23, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

I have to start off by saying that this review is based off my experiences while working at American Express and also from many other colleagues on my team that share similar experiences with American Express. There are many reps that enjoy working for American Express, but I unfortunately am not one of them. Great pay and incentives Decent benefits There are some really great people that work here and will do everything that they can to help you.

Cons

Scheduling flexibility is really not very flexible TL's force and coerce employees with disciplinary action if they don't comply to made up expectations that are not part of performance metrics 4 hours of sick time per month--that's only 48 hours per year--if you don't have enough sick time you get written up Not able to use all the PTO they give you because there is no time available (which in many cases were not major holidays or weekends..just random days requested 3-6 months in advance that were NOT available) AND you can not carry your PTO over year after year---use or lose There is no recourse for employees when they have a complaint about a TL being abusive You get harped on about what you didn't do right, versus all the things that you ARE doing right. The internet service providers that they are contracted with are absolutely horrible. You are not allowed to switch service providers, but it is held against you if your internet service goes out too many times. Most times we have to wait for a technician to come out, which for some ppl maybe 2-3 days before a tech can come out. If you have too many problems with your ISP then you get written up for that which makes no sense at all, we are not in IT--we didn't purposely cause our internet to have an outage, or for their to be something wrong with the cable lines outside of our buildings. When many of us were hired, we were told that there would be some sales involved, but that wasn't the primary focus. They pulled the wool over us on that one. That's ALL the tl's care about are the sales that you make. If you get a bad survey but you make the sale, then they want to jump all over you about not following the call flow, but in the same breath if you don't make an offer they tell you that their research has proved that when an offer is presented, that the survey score will be higher.....sounds like quite the contradiction to me. NO ONE gives recognition for the EXCELLENT surveys that come in...attention is only paid if a negative survey comes in. The hiring manager flat out lies. During the hiring process, I remember distinctly asking if this was a job that required a lot of sales. I was told no....but here we are...all I hear all day long is sales, sales, sales.

3.0
Jan 15, 2016

Travel Counselor

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Solid company, worked over 15 yrs.

Cons

Takes too long to make changes to stay current with new technology and reservations systems

1.0
Jan 8, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Having the company name on a resume carries some weight. Might be a great 'first job' if you are willing to take below market rates A veritable smorgasbord for any workaholic. Broad range of exposure to technology.

Cons

Let me first state this is not a complaint against the company, American Express - but do want to 'tell it like it is' for any starry-eyed job seeker thinking to venture in to the work environment. AXP is everything you would expect in a shrinking workforce full of desperate hangers on trying to compete with everyone around them in order to position themselves to avoid getting laid off as the stock and company spiral. H1B visa program is used to the maximum to displace long term, competent and dedicated employees to satisfy short-term financial goals. Do not plan to retire there. There is a rank 'em and yank 'em mentality where excellent, invaluable employees are being let go because they have to make excuses to get rid of people to save money. I think ENRON invented that process & we all know what happened to them. This 'culture change' AXP is embarking on is simply barefaced outsourcing program which is bringing people into the US on the visa program, which would not be so bad if the people they hired had talent, but most only have one major attribute - being cheap. This 'financial engineering' is akin to giving yourself cancer to lose weight, or a surgeon removing vital organs and replacing them with newspaper stuffing. Many people over the last decade, with the sharpest skills and inventive minds that covered lots of critical capability and those recently laid off engineers with talent immediately end up working for competitors, which are undeniably now 'eating Amex's lunch' all thanks to the ingenious employee shedding practices AXP engages in. Yet AXP leadership is bewildered why they are facing headwinds. If you are an exempt salaried employee, to compete and fight to stay on, expect to wake up around 6:30am and immediately start reading email, the conference calls begin at the same time you are supposed to getting your kids ready for and taking them to school. Meanwhile the company touts 'work life balance' and 'family values' but you don't get angry about that, because wisely you instead save your energy because you know you will need it for the frequent after-hours work that you get to perform from home dialed in with your laptop, with no overtime pay. Saturday became a regular work day, and all of it was absolutely thankless, just expected. Directors have it even worse, with blackberry pages and calls around the clock. AXP offers a generous 2+weeks of vacation, but do the math - you will work two weeks of OT during your first month there and will continue to provide OT every month for the remainder of your dubious tenure - There is pressure for innovation which on its face is an admirable and desirable goal, but what it originates from is the desperation from the top leaders in the company to somehow find an 'Uber - like' magical fix to recover ground to competitors.

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